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“Originally planning to go with a small house concept, we found it was illegal to build a house of less than nine hundred square feet. Why? By what authority can anybody tell me what kind of house I have to live in?”
― Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
― Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
“Roofies aren’t a myth, he said, but studies suggest the fear outpaces the incidence. Turns out, “being roofied” often doesn’t involve roofies at all. People just don’t realize how common it is to experience a blackout.”
― Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
― Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
“Look, if you need sexy egg cartons to sell our eggs, then you need to educate your customers. We don’t intend to patronize big oil just so we can sell eggs at Whole Foods.”
― Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
― Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
“The depressives, far from seeing themselves through dark lenses as we had presumed, were cursed by twenty-twenty vision: compared with other groups, their self-ratings of positive qualities most closely matched how the observers rated them. In contrast, both the nondepressed psychiatric patients and the control group had inflated self-ratings, seeing themselves more positively than the observers saw them. The depressive patients simply did not see themselves through the rose-colored glasses that the others used when evaluating themselves.”
― The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control
― The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control
“You don’t have roosters with your laying hens. How do they lay eggs?” Dear folks, chickens don’t need roosters to lay eggs. They need roosters to hatch eggs, but not to lay them. Just like women don’t need men to lay eggs; they just need a man to hatch one. A mere century ago, not one in a hundred would have been ignorant of this common agrarian knowledge.”
― Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
― Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
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